Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on small intercontinental ballistic missile modernization. Final report
The Task Force considered a range of ICBM and basing alternatives, with emphasis on the question of survivability and stability. The principal deployments analyzed were: (1) 500 Small ICBMs (SICBMs) deployed in Hard Mobile Launchers (HMLs) on four existing U.S. Government complexes in the Southwest; (2) 50 MX ICBMs deployed in a variable number of superhard silos (patterned array); and d(3) 50 MX ICBMs deployed in carry hard configuration, i.e., in hardened cannisters deployed among a large number of low-cost vertical shelters. The Task Force concluded that there is at least one SICBM basing mode -- and possibly one or more MX basing modes -- which, although costly, have a high degree of survivability and accordingly are suitable candidates for deployment by the U.S.
- Research Organization:
- Defense Science Board, Washington, DC (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 7140444
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A-173675/0/XAB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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